ZINC+ORS Website

This website is a repository of materials on the use of the mineral zinc and oral rehydration salts (ORS) to treat childhood diarrhoeal diseases. The website offers this advice on the use of materials available for free downloading on this website (See video below for a guide to site use): "By using and adapting the resources we've created and tested, you can help protect children from the dangers of dying from diarrhoeal diseases. We want you to be as effective as possible in selling your Zinc+ORS products or educating mothers about why they should use these products. Here’s a quick video to get you started."


The site has materials listed by country: Uganda, Nigeria, and India, and then a general Africa section. It has these recommendations for use of its videos, posters, and training materials, a marketing toolkit, further resources: "We want you to translate, customize, and adapt these resources so they can be the most help to you and your work. You might want to:

    Add local product shots and logos of your organization.

    Consider differences in:

• Language, customs and strategy
• Availability of product types and dosing (syrups vs tablets; 10mg vs 20 mg, and so on).

And if you show us what you've done, we can post it for others to see as an example of how they can adapt these tools themselves!"


This video is a sample from the site: